The paper's leadership continued into the 1950s, when the Daily News was the largest newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of more than two million and a Sunday circulation of four million. Its 1947 circulation was 2.4 million daily and 4.7 million on Sunday. Following World War II, American newspapers were in their heyday, and 'the brassy, pictorial New York Daily News led all the rest,' according to a Time magazine tribute. In 1926 circulation reached nearly one million, making the New York Daily News the largest newspaper in the United States. It will be aggressively for America and for the people of New York.' The newspaper was owned by the Tribune Company, which was based in Chicago and published the Chicago Tribune. In his introductory editorial, Joseph Patterson wrote, 'The policy of the Daily News will be your policy. The first issue of the New York Daily News was published on June 26, 1919. It soon returned to profitability and has become New York's leading tabloid.ДЇrom Pioneering Tabloid to Largest Daily Newspaper: 1919-80 The paper found new ownership in Mortimer Zuckerman and Fred Drasner at the beginning of 1993. British publisher Robert Maxwell took over the paper in 1991, but died later that year under mysterious circumstances. The pioneering tabloid, and its eponymous holding company, fell on hard times in the 1980s, though, and a five-month strike in 1990 forced its parent company, the Tribune Company, to put it up for sale. Zuckerman and Fred Drasner acquire the Daily News.Д¬alled 'too tough to die,' the New York Daily News was the largest circulation metropolitan daily newspaper in the United States for much of the 20th century. And today, it is the largest-selling newspaper in the New York metropolitan area.ДЎ919: First issue is published on June 26.ДЎ926: Circulation reaches nearly one million, making the New York Daily News the largest newspaper in the United States.ДЎ947: Daily News reaches peak circulation of 2.4 million daily and 4.7 million on Sunday.ДЎ990: The newspaper's ten unions go on strike in October.ДЎ991: Robert Maxwell acquires the newspaper from the Tribune Company in March, then drowns in November the Daily News files for bankruptcy in December.ДЎ993: Mortimer B. A year into their ownership, the Daily News was operating in the black. As the first hometown owners of the Daily News, Zuckerman and Drasner have demonstrated a strong and continuous commitment to the newspaper as well as the city and its people.

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